Is this a bed bug?

[Doggiedog]

It fell out of my pillow.

It looks like a spider to me but I'm not sure.

 

[krylon]

yes

burn your bed now

 

[guyver01]

its a bug
it was on your bed

1+1 = ?

 

[darkswordsman17]

OP, please crop the pics.

Doesn't look like a bed bug (no ridges on the body). Not sure what bug it is, but it looks kinda similar to those, but it seems to have a smooth and rounded body.

 

[Skitzer]

Looks like a tick to me ...... hard to tell

 

[Renob]

its a flea

 

[Scouzer]

if you have to ask, you're already a vampire.

 

[leckley]

Looks like a tick to me ...... hard to tell

I would have to agree with that, does look like one...

its a flea

nah, fleas have wings and look like small flies - kinda like nats from what I remember - the whole having cats in the house thing, bad idea that was...ugh.

 

[Ichinisan]

Doesn't look like a bedbug, flea, or tick.

 

[Doggiedog]

Yeah sorry about the cropping. I was putting my kids to bed and kind of panicked bc I wasn't sure what it was.

I tried squishing it but it was rock hard. I think it might be a spider or something. It seems to only have 2 body segments and not three but I only saw 6 legs. Maybe 2 fell off when I initially killed it.

 

[dawp]

I would have to agree with that, does look like one...



nah, fleas have wings and look like small flies - kinda like nats from what I remember - the whole having cats in the house thing, bad idea that was...ugh.

fleas do not have wings.

flea:

hard to tell what that is, but I don't think it's a bedbug. I believe they are flat. that looks like some kind of beetle.

this is a bedbug:

 

[Doggiedog]

Thanks guys!

It must be some kind of beetle then. It's neither of those two.

Phew!

 

[fralexandr]

a pic of the head would've probably helped >.< it didn't fall off right?

kinda looks like a myxophaga
http://bugguide.net/node/view/40604/bgpage
but they're aquatic and uncommon

might just be bostrichoidea
http://bugguide.net/node/view/40623/bgpage

 

[lxskllr]

It looks like an engorged flea, but I don't think they puff up like that. Beetle seems most likely to me.

 

[destrekor]

It looks engorged, whatever it is - ie it has feasted on your blood.

But that could be the lighting...

It does look like a tick - have you been anywhere in the past few days that a tick could have caught a ride?

If it's engorged, that explains it falling out of your pillow: probably just dropped off you in the night.

 

[DaTT]

It looks engorged, whatever it is - ie it has feasted on your blood.

But that could be the lighting...

It does look like a tick - have you been anywhere in the past few days that a tick could have caught a ride?

If it's engorged, that explains it falling out of your pillow: probably just dropped off you in the night.

Looks absolutely NOTHING like a tick.

 

[lxskllr]

The legs look too long to be a tick, but maybe... If it has 8 legs, it's definitely a tick.

Edit:

Looks absolutely NOTHING like a tick.

It looks like it could be an engorged deer tick. I've never seen one of those puffed up though.

 

[fralexandr]

yeah that's what i thought initially too, but he said it wasn't squishy :\

"I tried squishing it but it was rock hard."

also after looking at pictures of ticks, the legs don't look the right; how the legs extend from the body definitely are more beetle like.

 

[DaTT]

The legs look too long to be a tick, but maybe... If it has 8 legs, it's definitely a tick.

Edit:




It looks like it could be an engorged deer tick. I've never seen one of those puffed up though.

Nah....either way, ticks gross me out. I have picked so many off of me in the past 2 years.

 

[911paramedic]

its a flea

Looks like a flea to me too, but really damn fat.

 

[dawp]

It looks engorged, whatever it is - ie it has feasted on your blood.

But that could be the lighting...

It does look like a tick - have you been anywhere in the past few days that a tick could have caught a ride?

If it's engorged, that explains it falling out of your pillow: probably just dropped off you in the night.

a tick full of blood can be huge, a full 3/8 to 1/2 inch accross. that is not a tick. best guess is some kind of beetle. or is it beatle.

 

[illusion88]

Bed Bugs are flat. That is not flat, it is round.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Jesus Christ put the fucking camera closer to the bug.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I had a bed bug infestation a while back. Motherfuckers use to bite me in a straight line in 3s. No matter how much you wash your blankets they dont die. Eventually I went to Home Depot and bought those mini nukes for your room and it killed them off.

 

[bignateyk]

Why not take a picture of it where you zoom in so that it's bigger than a spec of dust and we might be able to tell you